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The audience for this production will mainly be schools and young people. We would therefore like you to design a set that reflects this. The set needs to be exciting and should have some elements, colours, or shapes that the young audience can relate to. You can take inspiration from anywhere you choose. However, the set also needs to work within the existing Globe space. A good costume can highlight themes in the play, as well as add layers of meaning to the production/text. Live music always plays an important part in Globe productions. How was it done and how were the musicians used? Don’t discount things because they seem big and impossible; there will always be some big and theatrical way of achieving your design. We have more than 4,000 items in our costume collection. They include costumes from every one of Shakespeare’s 37 plays, and from other RSC shows, such as Matilda and Dr Faustus. The Benson Company costumes

In this fact sheet, students will learn about the costumes actors wore, what make-up was used and more.As a volunteer on this project, my task is to update catalogue entries for The Trust’s collection of costume designs. This is a lot of fun as I get the chance to look at hundreds of individual designs for many RSC productions. I’ve found that these designs provide a (usually!) colourful and perhaps under-explored way into our understanding of the themes or ‘moods’ that are unique to a particular production. We actually see a travelling acting troupe in one of Shakespeare’s plays – Hamlet . A group of ‘players’ appear at court and put on a play. Hamlet gets them to insert a new scene into it – one that mimics the way his uncle killed Hamlet’s father, so that the murder is revealed. Did you know? Macbeth’¸ dir. Polly Findlay, Royal Shakespeare Company Performance at Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 21 March -18 September 2018. First watched 14th June 2020, re-accessed 22nd September 2020.

Their festival putStratford-upon-Avon on the map and thousandsof tourists flooded into the town ofShakespeare’s birth. We are used to seeing clothing from a variety of historical periods on stage, particularly in Shakespeare’s plays. But in Elizabethan times, costumes would have been more elaborate or exaggerated versions of everyday Elizabethan dress. This meant that they could be used for more than one production. Because the actors owned the company, new plays written for the company had to include parts for all the main actors to let them show their strengths. This is one of the reasons why you get funny bits even in the most serious tragedies. So in Macbeth we have the role of the Porter, whose drunken antics amuse the crowds, designed for the comic in the company. Stage make-up, like costumes, helped the audience to understand a character. Actors playing Moors wore make-up that made them seem dark-skinned. Paleskinned, fair women were said to be the most beautiful at the time. A white face, red cheeks and a blonde wig turned a boy actor into a beautiful young woman. Crushed pearls or silver could be added to make-up to produce a shimmering effect. This was especially effective in make-up for actors performing indoors by candlelight or for fairies (as in A Midsummer Night’s Dream). When two characters wore the same make-up and wigs (and often costumes too) you knew they were twins – even if they did not really look alike.Fernandez, C, [January 2 2020] ’38 Looks Kate Middleton has Worn since Becoming a Royal’ Available at: < https://www.insider.com/kate-middleton-best-outfits-through-the-years-2019-12> [first accessed 25th August 2020]. The film and its costumes still serve as a reference to fashion designers—and indeed creatives of all stripes—today. What has made it endure? Peggy Ashcroft was an actor who worked extensively with the RSC throughout her career and one of our paintings, by Ethel Leonine Gabain, depicts her as the infamous character, Juliet. It shows her in an orange velvet dress she wore in 1935, one of many dresses we have that she has worn that we also have in our Costume Collection.

The Globe stage is very distinctive. Was the way the actors used it innovative or traditional? Explain how. The Globe was an open-air theatre shaped like a doughnut. There were shelters over the seats and the stage, but the middle section was open to the sky. The sun was the only source of light – performances took place during the day, not at night like they do now. The building was made of wood and plaster, like most Tudor buildings, which meant it was vulnerable to fire. No candles! Mention the type of play (e.g. comedy, history, tragedy). You may choose to add when the play was written or published.

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Sometimes you might not be able to say everything about a character through their clothes – think about what accessories you could add to help with your character’s identity. Shakespeare, W., 1606 (this edn. 2015) Macbeth, third Arden edn. Ed. by Clark, S. and Mason, P. London: Bloomsbury, p.321-324. Design a costume for the witches and the Macbeths. You must explain your design choices, noting the following: Use the guide below to write a review for the Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank production of Macbeth.

Throughout renowned playwright William Shakespeare’s 38 plays clothing is an integral part of the text [1]. Over the past 400 years various performances of Shakespeare’s work globally have led to various interpretations of his texts and how they are presented to the audience. For example, I have seen an all-female Globe production of ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ which was set during the Elizabethan era, the late Ninagawa’s epic production of ‘Macbeth’ adorned in the native dress of Japan and a production of ‘Richard II’ which used everyday items such as a ketchup bottle and sponge to symbolise characters in a narrativised version of the play. In each of these examples costume becomes a “visualisation of someone other than the actor [or everyday appliance] who wears it, and the clothing is chosen or designed for this particular theatrical moment” [2].Shakespeare, W., 1606 (this edn. 2015) Macbeth, third Arden edn. Ed. by Clark, S. and Mason, P. London: Bloomsbury, p.168. We also have the accessories which were worn alongside the main costume, such as the crown Helen Mirren wore as Cleopatra in 1982.